Strange

I never thought betrayal would hit me this hard. I caught my girlfriend cheating on me with the most popular guy on campus. I stood there, frozen, watching as she laughed in his arms—like I never even existed. And when I confronted them, I was the one who got blamed. Me. Because I was poor. Because I had no influence. She didn’t even try to defend me. And when I was at my lowest, when I thought I was about to die, something impossible happened. A screen appeared in front of me, glowing with strange letters. [Spend one million dollars within three days to unlock a greater prize.] It was a system—one that could give me unlimited wealth, but only if I played by its rules. With this, I could have anything. I could crush the ones who humiliated me. I could make them pay. But I quickly realized that money alone wouldn’t be enough. The man I was up against wasn’t just some rich playboy—he was dangerous, and he wasn’t going down easily. If I wanted to win, I had to be smarter. I had to use every trick, every advantage, and push the system to its limits. The question is—do I have what it takes?

Craig Seven is a 35-year-old ex-Navy SEAL who falls into the drug trade after a devastating career setback leaves him desperate to pay the medical bills keeping his four-year-old daughter alive. For her, Seven is willing to cross any line. But during a high-stakes drug deal, a bullet to the head should have ended his life. Instead, Seven awakens before strange beings who offer something impossible: a second chance at life. There is only one catch—he must become a Soul Eater, a supernatural bounty hunter serving an organization that claims to be responsible for the creation of mankind. With no other way to survive, Seven accepts. His first assignment seems simple: hunt down Mephisto, a 23-year-old law student wanted by the Soul Eater Organization. Find her. Kill her. Deliver her soul. But the closer Seven gets to his target, the more he realizes that Mephisto is not the monster they claimed her to be—and the Soul Eaters may not be the saviors they claim to be. Now Seven must choose between the organization that gave him a second life and the woman he was ordered to kill. Because the Soul Eaters are the only thing keeping him alive—and possibly his only chance to save his daughter. How much is Seven willing to sacrifice for Mephisto when everything he has ever fought for is on the other side of the trigger?

Everyone in Eclipse City dreams of awakening an ability. I spent twenty-five years being one of the powerless. Then a monster attacked during one of my deliveries, and a strange voice appeared inside my head. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED.] For the first time in my life, I had power. But there was a problem. The system hated me. Every mission became more dangerous. Every reward came with a hidden price. When I refused to obey, it punished me. Then I discovered the truth. I wasn't the system's chosen host. I was its biggest threat. Previous hosts had all died after reaching Level 50. The system had made sure of it. Now I'm approaching Level 50, and the system is becoming desperate. It wants me to open something called the First Gate. It doesn't want me to know what's behind it. And the more I uncover, the more I realize that my entire life may have been part of the system's plan. But the system made one mistake. It gave its prisoner enough power to become its enemy. Now I'm going to break every rule it gave me... even if the truth behind the First Gate destroys the world I know.

God Vanished. Twenty-five years ago, the world changed. Gates appeared across the Earth. Monsters poured through them, and humanity awakened powers it never knew existed. Xavier Reed was one of the unlucky ones. Born with strange crimson eyes and abandoned as a child, he grew up believing weakness was simply his fate. With no talent or power, he became an E-Rank dungeon porter, the disposable man hunters left behind. Until one dungeon changed everything. Abandoned to die by the very people he trusted, Xavier watched the portal close before him as a monster tore through his body. He should have died. Instead, something awakened. [Host Located.] [Welcome back, Xavier Reed.] A mysterious System has chosen him. But this is no ordinary System. It doesn't simply hand out quests or demand that he become stronger. It watches. It judges. It remembers something that Xavier doesn't know. Something that may have not happened yet. As Xavier climbs from the bottom, he begins to uncover secrets hidden behind the Gates. Something is wrong with the world. Why has Heaven fallen silent? Why is the Underworld moving? And why was Xavier chosen? The answers may be connected to a truth far more terrifying than the monsters beyond the Gates. Humanity may have already lost this war. And that is why he was chosen, to change that outcome.

After losing his job, his apartment, and the last bit of hope he had left, Ethan Cole finds a single dollar lying on the ground—his final piece of pocket change. But the moment he picks it up, a strange message appears before his eyes: [System Activated: The God of Ruin’s Pocket Change.] The system tells him the coin in his hand doesn’t belong to an ordinary person. It belongs to the God of Ruin, a being so powerful that even thousands of dollars mean nothing more than spare change. With the system’s power, Ethan can buy things worth tens of thousands using just one dollar, acquire companies with a few coins, and manipulate fortunes across the world. But every purchase follows one terrifying rule—for every gain Ethan receives, ruin must fall somewhere else. A billionaire might lose everything overnight, corporations could collapse, and entire markets may crash just to balance the price of his fortune. As Ethan rises from a broke nobody to a man who can shake the global economy with pocket change, he slowly realizes a horrifying possibility: he may not be the one controlling the system. Instead, the God of Ruin might be using him, and every coin he spends could be buying the world’s destruction.

Three years after the apocalypse began, Damon was betrayed by his own wife and thrown from the walls of the survivor base he helped build. As the infected tore him apart, Celeste watched from the arms of her lover. Then Damon woke up thirty days before the outbreak. With a second chance at life and memories of everything he lost, Damon files for divorce, cuts ties with the Sterling family, and prepares for the end of the world. The strange ability that came back with him may be his greatest weapon. Anything he has touched can be moved to a place he has stood before. He uses his knowledge of the future to build a fortune, secure food and supplies, and save the people he failed to protect in his first life. This time, his mother, his best friend, and the others he once lost will have a chance to survive. But Damon isn’t the only one preparing for the apocalypse. Celeste’s father has spent years studying Damon’s blood, and the secret behind his ability may be connected to the outbreak itself. Worse, Grant, the man who helped destroy Damon’s life, has returned with memories of the future. Damon knows how the world ends. Now he must find out who else knows, and how far they are willing to go to control what comes next.

The earth is suddenly invaded by aliens who call themselves the Daegi causing humanity to fight and prevent their extinction, when peace treaty is signed between the two forces, humanity realizes that there could be another upcoming war and the race to surpass their limits begin. --------- Roshan, our young MC faces bullying and disgrace due to his lack of abilities and strength, but one day, he stumbles upon into a ditch and finds a book which granted him access to an unimaginable power and unparalleled strength, pushing him into a universe of strange possibilities. With each passing day, he undergoes profound transformation evolving him into a being of pure power, a weapon of mass destruction above the limits of humanity. However, as Roshan’s abilities begin to grow, so does the danger that surround him. Roshan realizes soon that the Daegis were merely pawns in much dangerous scheme, now as the strongest human on the planet, Roshan must stop the extinction of his race. As Roshan begins to fully understand and discover the secrets of the system’s creation, he also begins to uncover the hidden truths of his own identity. Would he be able to cling on to his humanity, harness his powers, build up organizations, forge alliances, and still protect those he loves or will the prospect of becoming a god lead him to a dark path of no return? [HOST : ROSHAN TALON] [QUEST RECEIVED] [QUEST: RETRIEVE THE GEM OF A KING TIER] [QUEST REWARD: NEW ABILITY]

Among them a boy with sharp eyes and untamed hair, no older than sixteen. Lin Dong. Whispers rise around him. “The failure of the Lin family…” “His father lost everything to Lin Langtian.” But Lin Dong says nothing. His jaw tightens, his fists curl. “I’ll make them remember my name.” The gong strikes. The test begins. One by one, disciples unleash their Yuan Power, glowing faintly with light. When Lin Dong steps forward silence. He places his palm on the stone pillar. Nothing. No glow. No tremor. Just cold stone. Laughter ripples through the crowd. Lin Langtian, his older cousin, smirks from afar already a martial prodigy, already chosen by the clan elders. But Lin Dong’s eyes don’t lower. There’s something burning behind them something feral. That night, he runs into the mountains, fists bleeding, shouting into the dark. “If the heavens won’t give me power, I’ll take it myself!” Lightning flashes and the earth trembles. From beneath the ancient roots, a strange stone talisman rises glowing with ancient runes. The air hums, trees bow, and the mountain itself seems to breathe. Lin Dong stares at it, breathless. The talisman pulses once… twice… then melts into his palm. His eyes widen his veins blaze with golden light. And somewhere, deep within the realm of spirits… something wakes up. “Finally… someone worthy.”

Jack Snyder suffered a huge car accident. Time went by, and he heard a girl’s voice calling Nozomu Shinchaku. Jack slowly opened his eyes and an unknown girl was crying in front of him, but everything about her was wrong. Long blue hair, yellow eyes, cat ears instead of normal Human ears. Jack glanced at her hand and saw sharp and long fingernails caressing his face. A fluffy blue tail was trembling behind her, signalling her worries. Jack saw a pool of blood on the ground near a rock, and he had a big bandage on his head. Strangely, his soul travelled to a young boy’s body, that judging by the pool of blood, died because of that rock. Now, he has to learn how to live in a strange Magical World as the Human teenager Nozomu Shinchaku that strangely can’t use Magic, and Magic has no effect on him. “Definition of sidekick: - A sidekick is someone who goes with the main lead on their adventures. If he is a superhero, the sidekick helps fight crime. Sometimes this word signifies an imbalance of power, and it implies that the sidekick is less powerful than the main lead. - Sidekick is one of the most effective forms of attack in a street fight. Hard kicks especially to the knee can take a larger opponent down or at least blow out his balance, leaving him vulnerable to follow-up shots.” *I intend on keeping this story free till it's finished.* *cover by Aisling Elizabeth Robinson and me*

Additional Tags: Multipleleads//Non-Harem//Early-romance//largecast//R18//Mystery//Adventure A lonely beast youngling who possesses the bloodlines of several Mythical Divine Beasts and seeks companionship, meets a mysterious girl who secretly believes she is a cannonfodder character in a cultivation novel. Upon their not-so-great first-time meeting, began an odd, but thrilling journey of two youths through the myriad realms of the cultivation world. Arguing with each other, arguing with passersby, stealing from each other, stealing from passersby, chasing each other for several kilometers, and being chased through several continents... But most importantly, growing closer and stronger together; enough to share the troubles that come from the other's strange identity... .... Violent spatial distortions appeared in the void before a figure flew out in a disheveled manner. An Mo reacted almost instantly to the distortions that appeared; however, he was a fraction of a second late. He was unable to dodge, and so the figure successfully used his clean, slick black shell as a steppingstone before they could fall into the stream. Like a swallow gently flowing in the sky, this person drifted to the bank of the stream without even looking back, leaving An Mo completely enraged as he stuck out his head to look at the clear footprint on his back. Before the disheveled figure could go far, An Mo opened his mouth and let out a furious shriek. “Ahhh!! You little bastard! I’ll fight you to the death! Don’t run if you have the guts!!”